Samuel Smith

Deputy Managing Editor

Samuel Smith serves as Deputy Managing Editor for The Christian Post. He began working for CP in 2014 as a staff reporter. Before joining CP, Smith covered Maryland state politics as well as college and high school athletics for various news outlets. He graduated with a journalism degree from Towson University.

His areas of interest include human rights, politics and sports. Smith also serves on the international missions team of his local church. He lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with his family.

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Jan 26, 2018
27,000 Fewer Christian Refugees Admitted to US in Trump's First Year
Over 27,000 fewer Christian refugees were admitted into the United States during President Donald Trump's first year in office, according to a prominent evangelical humanitarian organization.
Jan 26, 2018
Atheist Group Forces California School District to Cancel Field Trip to Christian Camp
A California public school district has canceled a field trip to a Christian retreat center after the nation's largest secular legal group filed a complaint.
Jan 25, 2018
Football Coach Punished for Praying After Games Denied Hearing by US Appeals Court
A Washington state high school football coach, who was suspended for kneeling in prayer after the end of football games, has suffered another legal setback in his quest to be reinstated and it is looking more likely that he might have to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jan 25, 2018
Cuban Christian Man Jailed After Police Confiscate Bibles, Told 'Our God Is Fidel Castro'
Details have emerged about the arrest and imprisonment of a Cuban Christian rights activist who was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison late last year after authorities raided his home and confiscated Bibles and crucifixes.
Jan 25, 2018
Jerry Falwell Jr. Defends Trump Amid Porn Star Affair Allegations: 'We Are All Equally Bad'
Liberty University President and staunch Donald Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr. has offered his defense of the president's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.
Jan 25, 2018
Atheist Group's Demand That Pastor-Led Student Program Be Banned Is Rejected by School District
An Indiana school district won't be ending a lunchtime leadership program led by pastors from a local church despite complaints from the nation's largest atheist legal group.
Jan 24, 2018
Joni Eareckson Tada: If Christians Don't Act, US Assisted Suicide Laws Could Become Like UK, Canada
Renowned evangelical author and disabilities advocate Joni Eareckson Tada is warning that the United States could one day become like Canada or more liberal European nations that promote physician-assisted suicide unless Christians push back against the trend.
Jan 24, 2018
Pastors Protest 6th Grade Assignment Claiming Christians, Muslims Worship 'Same God'
Concerned Christians have voiced their outrage over a homework assignment given to area students which claimed that Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God.
Jan 24, 2018
Univ. of Iowa Ordered to Reinstate Christian Student Group Punished Over Policy on Homosexuality
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of Iowa must temporarily reinstate a Christian student group that was punished last fall because it denied a leadership position to a gay student who refused to accept the club's statement of faith opposing homosexuality.
Jan 24, 2018
Gen Z Is the Least Christian Generation in American History, Barna Finds
Teenagers today are the most non-Christian generation in American history as only four out of 100 teens hold a true biblical worldview and one out of every eight teens identify as non-heterosexual, a new survey released by one of the nation's leading evangelical polling firms has found.